Justice Ministry gathers information of crime and narcotic network

Ministry of Justice arranges a workshop to complete the database of detainees charged with crime and narcotic involvement. The purpose of the estabishment of the Crime and Narcotic Prevention and Suppression Center is to collect in-dept details of crime and narcotic network.

Presiding over the opening of the workshop, Minister of Justice Charnchai Likitchita (ชาญชัย ลิขิตจิตถะ) said he hopes that all information concerning the detainees will be collected and assessed, so that the Ministry of Justice can quickly complete its database. Participants of the workshop include 160 justice officers.

The center is under the collaboration of the Royal Thai Police (RTP), the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), the Rights and Liberties Protection Department (RLPD), the Central Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS), and the Department of Corrections.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 20 August 2007

This database is for the next 2,500 extrajudicial killings.

those who are nicked (or indeed dead) do not deal drugs - but a large part of the police force do

The dead in the last drug war came to more than 7,000 actually. Let's just hope this doesn't happen again

Does this mean that the existing system still involves writing and searching into mountains of ledgers?

those who are nicked (or indeed dead) do not deal drugs - but a large part of the police force do

I thought that the army controlled all the major drug movement.

I thought that the army controlled all the major drug movement.

that's another part of the story.

When the "illigitimate" drug dealers start moving into the territory of the "legitimate" drug dealers, then trouble starts!

In the West cetral databases of all criminal offenders have been in place for decades. Does anyone think they don't have similar databases of suspect drug dealers, too?

Thailand is just catching up.

Surely they should do this work in secrecy, and then act upon it??

If they advertise what is going on, it negates the effect...........

Mind you it looks good, with the prospect of an election on the horizon.

narcotics, the third biggest cash commodity after oil and weapons